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Let it suffice to say, that the riot and disorder it occasioned in the Strasburgers fantasies was so general such an overpowering mastership had it got of all the faculties of the Strasburgers minds so many strange things, with equal confidence on all sides, and with equal eloquence in all places, were spoken and sworn to concerning it, that turned the whole stream of all discourse and wonder towards it every soul, good and bad rich and poor learned and unlearned doctor and student mistress and maid gentle and simple nun's flesh and woman's flesh, in Strasburg spent their time in hearing tidings about it every eye in Strasburg languished to see it every finger every thumb in Strasburg burned to touch it.
The South Germans readily accepted the invitation. The Strasburgers passed it on to the Swiss, and specially desired that Bullinger from Zurich might take part in the conference.
The next day, the two Strasburgers, Capito and Butzer, held a preliminary interview with Luther, whose physical weakness made any lengthy negotiations very difficult. He expressed to them candidly and emphatically his desire, repeated again and again, that they should declare themselves at one with him.
The controversy about the attributes, &c. instead of cooling, on the contrary had inflamed the Strasburgers imaginations to a most inordinate degree The less they understood of the matter the greater was their wonder about it they were left in all the distresses of desire unsatisfied saw their doctors, the Parchmentarians, the Brassarians, the Turpentarians, on one side the Popish doctors on the other, like Pantagruel and his companions in quest of the oracle of the bottle, all embarked out of sight.
It was about the same hour when the tumult in Strasburg being abated for that night, the Strasburgers had all got quietly into their beds but not like the stranger, for the rest either of their minds or bodies; queen Mab, like an elf as she was, had taken the stranger's nose, and without reduction of its bulk, had that night been at the pains of slitting and dividing it into as many noses of different cuts and fashions, as there were heads in Strasburg to hold them.
Sophia, the Rouennais at the end of the metal spire of their cathedral, the Strasburgers at the summit of their minister, the Americans on the head of the Liberty statue at the entrance of the Hudson and on the Bunker Hill monument at Boston, the Chinese at the spike of the temple of the Four Hundred Genii at Canton, the Hindus on the sixteenth terrace of the pyramid of the temple at Tanjore, the San Pietrini at the cross of St.
'Tis needless to inform the geographical reader, that when Diego was in Spain, it was not possible to meet the courteous stranger in the Frankfort road; it is enough to say, that of all restless desires, curiosity being the strongest the Strasburgers felt the full force of it; and that for three days and nights they were tossed to and fro in the Frankfort road, with the tempestuous fury of this passion, before they could submit to return home.
What a fatal thing is the popular pride of a free city! cries one historian The Strasburgers deemed it a diminution of their freedom to receive an imperial garrison so fell a prey to a French one. The fate, says another, of the Strasburgers, may be a warning to all free people to save their money.
When alas! an event was prepared for them, of all other, the most grievous that could befal a free people. As this revolution of the Strasburgers affairs is often spoken of, and little understood, I will, in ten words, says Slawkenbergius, give the world an explanation of it, and with it put an end to my tale. Every body knows of the grand system of Universal Monarchy, wrote by order of Mons.
Trade and manufactures have decayed and gradually grown down ever since but not from any cause which commercial heads have assigned; for it is owing to this only, that Noses have ever so run in their heads, that the Strasburgers could not follow their business.
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